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Stylus/Pen/Laser Pointer Is The Greatest School Gadget Ever

2:40AM September 2, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

You thought you were pretty awesome in grade school when you’d pull your laser pointer out of your pencil case and pretended to use it like a pen. Admit it, you did. I did. Well yeah, Griffin’s Stylus + Pen + Laser Pointer makes that thing look like an outmoded unitasker. More »

Computing

A Pen That Tries To Forget It’s Really A Stylus

9:40AM August 4, 2011 | Kwame Opam

The Jot is a bastardised iPad stylus that seems to think it’s some kind of high-born pen. It wears all the trappings of a simple yet elegant ballpoint pen, but it can’t deny what it is. More »

Geek Out

Is It Wrong To Crave A Big Box Of Dual-Ended Pantone Markers?

1:48AM July 28, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

If it’s wrong, well, I don’t want to be right. Though what I would like is $US483 and the nerve to actually buy this box of 150 Pantone reference colour pens. You can buy them in packs as little as 12, but where’s the fun there? [DickBlick via Werd] More »

Gadgets

Monster CleanTouch Pen: Great Cleaning, Weak With Fingerprints

6:30AM July 7, 2011 | Casey Chan

I never used those spray screen cleaners because you need a cleaning cloth for them to work. I would always lose those! The Monster CleanTouch Pen combines the screen-cleaning solution and cleaning cloth in one pen-sized nub. More »

Science

The Silver Conductive Pen: Poindexter’s Gonna Need A Bigger Pocket Protector

2:40AM June 30, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

A warning to the nerd who dares mix his ballpoints with this pen! It’s a dangerous life for a nerdlinger, now the University of Illinois has introduced a pen that writes electrical circuits in real silver. More »

Gadgets

Uni-ball Kuru Toga Mechanical Pencil: Stays Sharp Forever

6:30AM June 18, 2011 | Casey Chan

If I had to go back to high school math class again, the Kuru Toga Mechanical Pencil is the only pencil I’d take with me. Why? Because it has a twist and turn mechanism that automatically rotates its lead to keep a perfectly sharp point every time you write. More »

Gadgets

The Turtle Pen Is Possibly The Only Interesting Pen

5:20AM May 3, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Pens! Pens! PENS! Excited? No, of course not, because when was the last time a pen was remotely interesting? Here’s a nice exception to the rule: Turtle’s “SNAPback” pens expose their tips with a pistol-like cocking action (so much innuendo!) More »

Geek Out

You Can Store More Ink In These Spiral Ballpoint Pens

7:00PM April 25, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

From the pages of “my-god-it’s-so-simple-why-didn’t-I-do-that-first” comes these spiral ballpoint pens, which hold double the amount of ink in their tightly spiralled coils. But let’s do the maths. Are these going to save our fine planet from drowning in landfill? Let’s look: More »

Geek Out

Can You Believe Someone Scribbled All Over These Floors?

6:00PM April 22, 2011 | Casey Chan

Heike Weber took what I, and probably you, did in school and brought it to a ridiculously larger scale. Those designs on the floor? Drawn with permanent marker. She’s worked on art installations like this for more than a decade. More »

Gadgets

You Might Actually Use This Screwdriver-Level-Ruler-Pen To Write

7:40AM April 19, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

I had about a dozen multi-tool pens in school. I had pens that fired lasers and told time and wrote in invisible ink, but for the life of me, I can’t remember using any to actually write something. More »